Move is linked to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP) & potential increased industry role by US Treasury Department. “Treasury is navigating a narrow course between trying to work with insurers to gather data on ransomware payments and warning insurance companies and other financial third parties that they run the risk of violating sanctions by making such payments—due to the probability of attacks being sponsored by adversarial regimes like North Korea and Iran.”
Source: Government Watchdog Welcomes Treasury’s Data Collection on Cyber Insurance Claims – Nextgov